The typical Significance of Zheng Yuanyou's Poems on Paintings and the Differences between North and South Poetics at the End of the Yuan Dynasty
Zheng Yuanyou's poems on paintings, influenced by subject matter, poetry image and social activities, show the stylistic characteristics of being clean and austere. Painting with emotion, paying attention to the overall mood of the painting, expressing artistic conceptions, and at the same time blending in emotional mood and historical insight, his poems reflect the "immersion" method of appreci-ating paintings. The style and creation path of Zheng Yuanyou's poems for paintings were typical of the literary circle of South China at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, different from the elegant and graceful style of Wang Yun, Yu Ji, Yang Zai, Fan Guo, and Jie Xisi in the early and middle periods of the Yuan Dynasty, but compatible with the natural poetics of Zhao Mengxu and Yuan Jiao, who valued clarity anddrew on the ancientswith a view to expressing sentiments. The two schools represented the two typical forms of poems on paintings created in the Yuan Dynasty.
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